unnecessary treatment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunnecessaryandtreatment
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unnecessary
adjective
uk/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/us/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/
not needed or wanted, or more than is needed ...
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treatment
noun
uk/ˈtriːt.mənt/us/ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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One of the most important indications for its use is to exclude white-coat hypertension and prevent years ofunnecessarytreatment.
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Follow-up tests can cause complications, and some patients may undergounnecessarytreatment.
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This results in many patients being started onunnecessarytreatment.
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However, whether the goal of reducing onlyunnecessarytreatmenthas been met, rather than necessary treatment, as well, remains unstudied.
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Failure to select a sensitive drug the first time around is likely to involveunnecessarytreatmentcosts and may adversely influence outcomes.
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This avoidsunnecessarytreatmentand side-effects, but it is not possible to predict the behaviour of each tumour and, inevitably, some men treated in this way will develop disease progression.
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Studies have shown that many, particularly well differentiated tumours, do not progress22 and the advantage of surveillance is the avoidance ofunnecessarytreatmentand the associated side-effects.
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You will create new resources by getting rid of private practice only if you assume that private patients are havingunnecessarytreatment.
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In other countries, it seems that people who are taken ill are almost forced to haveunnecessarytreatment.
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My noble friend also mentioned the intention of changing the structure of the dental charges to discourageunnecessarytreatment.
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Secondly, there is the difficulty ofunnecessarytreatment.
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There is thus the danger ofunnecessarytreatmentfollowing on from mass screening.
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It was felt thatunnecessarytreatmentcould not otherwise be controlled, except by a stricter monitoring by the dentist reference service and a wider use of officers.
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Such tests can be vital in diagnosis and can also preventunnecessarytreatmentand invasive surgery.
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Testing may lead to overdiagnosis andunnecessarytreatment.
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The possible benefits of a diagnostic test may also be weighed against the costs of unnecessary tests and resulting unnecessary follow-up and possibly evenunnecessarytreatmentof incidental findings.
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They argue that the policy will not protect against breaches of privacy, will require athletes to undergounnecessarytreatmentin order to compete, and will intensify gender policing.
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Withunnecessarytreatmentof ten women for every one woman whose life was prolonged, the authors concluded that routine mammography may do more harm than good.
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However, more diagnostic tests may lead to more false-positive diagnoses of bacterial meningitis, resulting in an increase of unnecessary treatments and, therefore, in decreased cost-effectiveness (4;12).
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